scan() Bug?
Thanks, Right, I can see why sep="\n" might grab the entire "\13\10" but it seems like sep="\10" should not strip the "\13" also. I need to read in this file (PDF file) and create a list of lines defined by the "\10" delimiter. Any suggestions how I could use ReadBin to do that?
Not a strange feature, but the documented behaviour (and useful, too). You have opened the file in text mode. If you want to keep CRs, open and read in binary mode.
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Try opening the file as a connection using the 'read binary' mode. If you are running on a Windows system, the operating system is taking \10\13 and mapping that to just '\n' since that is the normal sequence that Windows uses on text files.
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I'm reading a file into a list by:
PDF = scan("file",what="character",sep="\10")
"\10" is the newline character in this file, also tried "\n" originally
On lines that are ended by "\13\10", both are dropped from the list entry
I want scan to keep the "\13" in the list entry.
Is this a bug or just a strange feature?